The Russian Revolution

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8141, 15 November 1905, Page 5

The Russian Revolution

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.).....

LONDON, November 14.-

Sir Francis Montefiore presided at a mass meeting in the Memorial Hall, called to express horror and indignation at-the premeditated massacres of the Jews in Russia. .

. Mr Balfour telegraphed that the Government had heard oi* the massacres with jpity and horror, and had already taken*'? every step to mitigate the calaniVtv.

Lord Jiothschild said he believed Mr Balfour and Lord Lansdowne's action had produced a great and salutary effect. The Lord Mayor, Mr Chamberlain, MrAsquith and Lord Bosebery, Lord James of "Hereford, the Bishops of Ingram and-Eipon, Doctor Clifford, Eev. R. J. Campbell, Chief Rabbi Adler, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster sent messages, expressing their horror.

The meeting-recorded its earnest conviction that the Jews were not immune from a recurrence of the massacre until the v obtained a publicly recognised home in Palestine.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14,

Besides remitting twenty-six million roubles of land redemption arrears, the Russian Government had absolved the families of the men killed in the war of all State payments.

Eeucer's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that replying to a Polish deputation, urging theabrogatioa of exceptional measures, Count Witte suid it was a mistake to suppose that the Government wan powerless or think they would surrender to the constant demand for the inadmissable extension of liberties which came solely from a little gang of revo lutionaiies. Spring had begun ia the nation's life, but a reaction might succeed. He added that the exceptional measures at Warsaw were taken at the instance of the factory owners. Count Witte has issued a communiqne declaring that while the "roubles in the Vistula district continue and the population maintain their demands for complete autonomy, thereby aiming at the restoration of the Polish kingdom, the inhabitants will not be allowed to benefit under the manifestoes of August 18 and October 20.

Count Witte declares that the Government will not tolerate attacks on the integrity of the Empire. All sections of the progressives are indignant. It is expected that the communique will cause a final and absolute rupture between the Government and the Liberals, since the provocative measures enforced in Poland are regarded as a flagrant violation of the manifesto of October 30th.

Many in St. Petersburg believe that martial law has been proclaimed in Poland from fear of German intervention.

M. Neidgart, Prefect of Odessa, has been dismissed owing to complicity in the massacre.

The Polish press unanimously declare that martial law in Poland is the result of the Kaiser's intervention, and because the bureaucracy is incensed that War saw has not followed the example of Odessa, Kieff and Kishineff in organising Jewish massacres.

Two futile attempts were made to destroy, by means of bombs, trains" filled with soldiers on the Warsaw railways.